Forebears and People

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People and forebears are semantically related. In some cases you can use "People" instead a noun "Forebears".

People noun - Human beings in general.

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Forebears and people are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Forebears" instead a noun "People".

Nearby Words: peopled, peopling

This is probably because most Christians and Jews are non-Middle Eastern, and people expect to see their spiritual forebears portrayed as if they were their ethnic forebears too.

Source: Fake Nationality
The people of the Kingdom of Israel, now known as the Ten Lost Tribes because we're not sure where they disappeared off to, may have been the forebears of what we nowadays call Bene-Israel, Kaifeng, and/or Ethiopean Jews, amongst others - but nobody really knows for sure.

Source: Useful Notes / Judaism
Paul Robeson: Whatever has happened to Stalin, gentlemen, is a question for the Soviet Union...You are responsible, and your forebears, for 60 million to 100 million black people dying in the slave ships and on the plantations, and dont ask me about anybody, please.

Source: Red Scare

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